Lightner Museum, St. Augustine, Florida, USA

The Lightner Museum is a museum of antiques, mostly American Gilded Age pieces, housed within the historic Hotel Alcazar building in downtown St. Augustine.

Lightner Museum: 75 King St, St. Augustine, Florida, USA

This 1887 Spanish Renaissance Revival-style building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

On August 20, 1947, Chicago publisher Otto C. Lightner purchased the building to convert the old hotel into a hobbies museum. He used the space to house several collections, including his extensive collection of Victorian-era art. He then turned it over to the city of St. Augustine, and the museum opened to the public in 1948.

The building that you see is a university building, not the museum.

Another building around the museum

The view from the front of the museum

The museum building

From the second floor, looking down

Stained Glass

From the third floor, looking down